Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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Edinburgh Fringe
Gamarjobat review - SkinnyFest)
Highly acclaimed 'silent-comedy' practitioners Gamarjobat return to Edinburgh this year with a show that delights and frustrates in equal measure. The openin... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Frankie Boyle review - SkinnyFest
There's all this talk about gay marriage, announces Frankie Boyle in a tone of affected informality. "I don't know what all the fuss is about. I'd have loved... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Justin Edwards review - SKINNYFest 2
That was the shipping forecast. And now there's just time to tell you about another programme coming up on Radio 4. Former Perrier Best Newcomer Justin Edwar... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Four World Cups and One World Pope review - SkinnyFest 2
At times, it's like being in the room with a borderline misogynist. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Simon Munnery column - SkinnyFest 2
An impudent sprite with piercing insight in the middle of the night informed me I was a ghost. It cut me to the quick; I knew I was sick but I hadn't realise... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Will Smith review - SkinnyFest 2
Comfortable middle-class humour for comfortable middle-class people. The largely sweater-wearing crowd were in tittering hysterics over Smith's many foibles,... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Edinburgh Fringe
Sean Collins review - SkinnyFest 2
A Canadian, Sean Collins is possessed of a classic North American stand-up style: smart black sweater, stool, microphone, and an unwillingness to get carried... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
My Brother And I Are Porn Stars review - SkinnyFest 2
The play's major successes crop up when combining gruesome surrealist imagery with off-beat humour... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Maria Bamford review - SkinnyFest 2
Award-winning comedians can lull you into a false sense of security when parting with your pennies at this festival, and although Maria Bamford is the proud ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Lucy Porter review - SkinnyFest 2
Lucy Porter is, by anyone's standards, adorable. With a gorgeous smile, delightfully frazzled hair and a stage covered in daisies and ladybirds, the teeny ti... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Josie Long review - SkinnyFest 2
A five star rating is a rare one indeedilydoo, and by the definition of this magazine is meant to represent perfection for "all and sundry". Now, allow me to... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
DJ Danny review - SkinnyFest 2
Takes the audience through a musical journey to cure the world of its three major problems àwar, poverty, and James Blunt. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Mickey Dwyer's Festival Fumble - SKINNYFEST 1
put in the extra 10% and you can send that unsuspecting dance troupe back to Wisconsin with a lifetime of nightmares Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Marijke van Warmerdam: First drop skinnyfest1
Somewhat radically in the world of contemporary art, Marijke van Warmerdam's First drop exhibition does not have an agenda. It appears to make no political s... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Interview - SKINNYFEST 1
It's the future (or is it?) and the work-life balance has gone seriously wonky. Loving relationships are giving way to contracts drawn up by the state at a v... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006